Hi, friends! How are you, today? I’ve been in a little bit of a rut when it comes to cooking lately. It’s been so dang hot that I don’t want to cook absolutely anything, so for the past few weeks, pre-shredded rotisserie chicken from Aldi has been my lifeline. (It’s so tasty! Definitely worth a try, if you haven’t.) I’ve begun looking through my old cook books to try and find some new recipes to try out.
This recipe was actually not one from a cookbook, but one that I remembered the co-op that I used to work at made. This is different, as the original had sausage, but I didn’t have any on hand, so I omitted it. I just finished having a bowl for lunch and it was delicious. This is the recipe that I used, but I also omitted the beans and the thyme, because I didn’t have any. (Never enough thyme/time — ha!) I used rosemary instead and served it with a slice of sourdough bread and butter. I also added LOTS of pepper.
The other thing that I made with my bag o’ kale was kale chips! This I didn’t follow a recipe for, but you truly do not need to! I massaged a few handfuls of kale with some olive oil and then put it on a baking sheet with another drizzle of olive oil and topped them with some nutrtional yeast. I just put them in the oven at 350 and kept taking them out to check on them until they were my desired level of crunchiness. This is the perfect way to use up any extra kale that you may have, because holy cow are the bags of kale at Aldi HUGE.
So happy to be here checking in!
XOXO,
Mattie Mae
Midwest Mattie 